HYANNIS – An event this week at 106 Bassett Lane will celebrate the launch of a mobile food pantry fleet created by Cape Organization for Rights of the Disabled (CORD).
The kickoff event will take place at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday. The organization plans to start delivering food that day to people with disabilities in the Mid- to Outer-Cape, then begin to expand to the Upper Cape.
According to Coreen Brinckerhoff, CORD’s executive director, the fleet of three vehicles is not intended to provide their clients with a sole source of food.
Rather, she said, CORD hopes to educate their clients on how to use this resource in conjunction with others nearby.
“We’ll not take it to their doors, but we’ll find concentrations of people with disabilities with low incomes and we’ll bring them some food while they are still also accessing other programs in the community,” she said. “This is a complimentary program, not a competitive one.”
The fleet will stop at disabled senior housing and other areas more easily accessible to those with disabilities and low incomes.
The Cape Cod Regional Transit Authority donated one of the vehicles which will be used in the fleet.
Brinckerhoff said the service still requires volunteers and extra food, despite receiving assistance from the Greater Boston Food Bank.
According to CORD, over 10,000 people with disabilities on Cape Cod and the Islands are in great need of food.
To register for the service or to volunteer, call (508) 775-8300.
CORD has worked towards advancing the independence, productivity and integration of people with disabilities in the region since 1984.
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